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Villa and Pantano, on the attack in Turkey
The World GP2 Series Championship this weekend makes its second stop of the season in Turkey, where it will share the limelight with the top category of racing, Formula 1. The competition started two weeks ago at Montmeló, with good performances from the Repsol drivers. This time the setting will be the spectacular Istanbul Park track, and Javi Villa and Giorgio Pantano will try to confirm that they can keep up with the leaders after their good showing in Barcelona.
The season so far has seen a podium finish, a fourth as well as a sixth place for the Racing Engineering team. Now the competition has its second race this weekend and goes to Istanbul where racing is a recent newcomer to the calendar – it first appeared a couple of years ago.
The track in Turkey is one of the most peculiar in the calendar. Famous for its ‘Curve 8’, with four parts that are taken with ever increasing speed, Istanbul Park is also characterised by its contrasts. The circuit has a series of changing slopes, with continuous ups and downs along with some blind “curves”.
In this forthcoming race the two drivers with the Racing Engineering team hope to carry on at the good level they achieved in Barcelona and so finish among the leaders. The hopes of Javi Villa and Giorgio Pantano are therefore to confirm the good form they got during the pre-season and they showed in the first race in Catalunya two weeks ago.
5/7/2008
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